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WEATHER REPORT.
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as between the Inland Empire and'eence in which energy is stored up
RESTORE THE NAME.
For years the name of Astoria
figured properly, and as prominently
as any of her fellow-weather stations,
on the weather map of the district in
which she lies; she was quoted first
on the list of the stations scheduled
on that map, and had her reports
listed and analyzed along with all the
other stations of the district All of
a sudden her name disappeared from
the daily map and schedule and she
is now a non-entity so far as the pub
lished detail emanating from the
office of Edward A. Beales, the dis
trict forecaster, at Portland, is con
cerned. There are a number of people in
this city whose business makes them
eager for specific knowledge of con
ditions at this particular point and
who deprecate the side-tracking of
Astoria in this relation and want to
know why it was done; though they
are not without a pretty fair estimate
of the inspiration that wrought the
turn-down. This is a regularly estab
lished federal weather station, with
an observer, and all the apparatus in
cident to the business; it is a well
known port, and entitled to a place
on the map and the station list of
the service; and if her name is not
incorporated there within a reason
able time, the Chamber of Commerce
will be asked to take the matter up
with Willis L. Moore, chief of the
United States Weather Bureau, and
a definite and satisfactory reason as
certained for the deliberate oversight
If we had never had our proper
place on the map, it would be a dif
ferent matter.. As it is, an explana
tion of very pertinent sort is to be
demanded as well as the restoration
to the schedule. We intend to follow
this up until the affair is brought to a
point that satisfies the people in in
terest here as well as the general
public.
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THE SILENT MAGNATES.
Every man with the slightest ac
quaintance with the methods and
policies of railway builders, knows
that a marked degree of silence is the
only safe and dependable line of ac
tion they can pursue in the construc
tive days of their enterprise; that it
is their peculiar province to know and
say nothing of the plans and purposes
of those behind the great projects
they, the lesser men, are carrying
out; and this on the simple score of
business; and we of Astoria are as
free to admit this as any can be, in
regard to the big railway ventures
that bear directly on the progress and
prosperity of this port and city.
But when a transportation line,
or system, has been practically com
pleted and its agency, and potency, in
a given direction, and relative sense,
are open to challenge, admittedly op
portune and rationally significant, we
believe that a community of the size
and importance of Astoria, has the
unequivocal right to ask questions
that are relevant and inspired of an
honest desire to be put in touch with
that which concerns it most.
The Astoria & Columbia River
Railroad, reaching from Seaside to
Goble (a distance of 68 miles), is now
part and parcel of the Northern Pa
ck Railway system; as is the Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle (or "North
Bank") Railway; and the Northern
Paficic and the Great Northern Rail
ways, jointly, own the "North Bank"
line, which last named road, with the
, Astoria & Columbia, gives the own-
the whole Columbia Basin, with the
sea, at this terminal; the whole
amalgamation bringing Astoria with
in the pale of interest that may not
be denied her. Her people gave lav
ishly and freely of their time, and
money and lands and franchises to
build the Astoria & Columbia; gave
values that would approximate near
ly a million of money, for its final
establishment; and upon this hypo
thesis alone, she has acquired a pat
ent to adequate consideration at the
hands of the powers now in control
of the system of which she is practi
cally a terminal point
Her people feel that the hour for
silence has passed; that she is en
titled to know something of what is
in store for her; that the visiting
officers of any and all these coalesced
lines, when they reach this city,
should manifest a bit more interest
than they have shown thus far, and
give forth some word of fact that
means business, and business encour
agement, and put this people in
closer touch and sympathy with the
ritory, simpler and more profitable for
to so align themselves as to make the
future work of the roads, in this ter
ritory, simpler and more protable for
all concerned. The day -for holding
things "up in the air" has gone by;
it is time to get down to practicali
ties; the people of Astoria are weary
of the course of snubbing silence that
has prevailed to date and expects to
hear something tangible from the
next group of officials that appears
here. ,
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for new spells of fruitful activity
This optimism has the right ring and
looks sound.
SCOTCH TEA-ROOMS.
An American Girl's View of Lunch
in and Shopping.
"PAYING THE PIPER."
The piper to whose alluring music
we all dance, is an inexorable credi
tor, and will never be withstood,
plead we ever so humbly, promise we
ever so ardently. Nation; or man, it
is all the same to him. Pay we must,
and in full.
For the past score of years we
Americans have been forging ahead
of all mankind in the accumulation
of wealth and in the mad spending
of it, until we have wrought for our
selves a name altogether spectacular
and uncompromisingly shameful We
are not any too proud of the dis
tinction we have won, because the
winning has transcended every
standard of morality our fathers set
us in the old years, and reduced us
to the level of fakerS and frauds and
mountebanks; and what is worse than
all else, we have sanctioned the
passage of laws drawn specifically
for the furtherance of plundering in
finance, commerce, industry, society,
trade ,in the very courts; we have
exploited our very credit until only
our natural resources stand between
us and dishonor; nor will they bear
too extraordinary a strain. The
"Piper" is at our gates and he will
not be denied. We have nothing left
but to sober down and re-arrange
our course and customs.
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EDITORIAL SALAD
A Georgia paper gets to the mar
row of the Democratic nomination
when it says that Mr. Bryan is the
absolutely unavoidable candidate.
Farmers do not like a
winter, but they always wait
February and March are over before
making up the returns.
It is a safe guess that by the time
Mr. Bryan gets through with the
Democratic organization there will
never be another one-man party in
this country.
By the time they finish their cruise
our 16 battleships will be able to fur
nish the highest living authority on
the glad hand and international hospitality.
Cuba's first president had been long
a resident of the United States. Per
haps the island is waiting to find an
other man with a thorough prelimi
nary American training.
England has an alliance with Jap
an, but proposes to keep its heiresses
at home, even if a "Pooh Bah"
should present himself with matri
monial intentions and an . endless
string of titles.
A Mexican paper refers to the
njnriol. fltirru a a .'.'fl . np.rirwt .nf .infe
It may not strike all travelers
newly landed in Glasgow and athirt
for information that its tea-rooms
form the brightest, and its other
shops the darkest, spots in that inter
esting city, but it did us. Why the
tea-rooms should have so captured
our imaginations I do not know, un
less it was that we were touched by
the spectacle of so much for so tittle.
Is there any place but a Scotch tea
room where you can lunch to reple
tion on sixpence (12. cents), and
where (added charm!) the feminine
tooth can satisfy its taste for sweets
without shame, since nearly every
thing in sight is sweet and what is
not in sight is not to be had?
Cranston's, the tea-room par excel
lence of Glasgow, is not an inspiring
spot in itself. The main shop on Bu
chanan Street is a long, dark, narrow
room where one comes solely to eat,
not to indulge a roving eye. But
who would not fix his eye, from
choice, on a table spread with every
variety of bread known to Scotland-
scones, soda scones, potato scones,
sweet milk scones, currant scones,
brown scones, all rather heavy and
suggesting indigestion, but all good;
bread and butter, brown and white;
bread and butter with carvies (cara
way seeds covered with sugar), "baw
bee," oat cakes, and endless other
varieties of doughy confection. Then
conies cakes, and cookies, and buns,
and little tarts to further distract the
eye; and then, best of all, arranged in
a neat square in the center ot the
table, diminutive pots of jam, hold
ing each enough for one person of
good but not too greedy appetite.
Having taken a bird's-eye view of
all these glories, one's difficulties be
gin. In the first place, it is a most
distracing matter to decide whether
to take strawberry, raspberry, black
currant or damson jam, and, having
decided, to chase the last elusive
berry around and around the bottom
of the jar before catching and deposit
ing it on one's plate. Then unless
you are of such an extravagant turn
of mind that you disregard the price
list propped up in a neat frame in the
middle of the table, there are most
complicated calculations' to be made.
"If a potato scone and butter cost a
penny, and a sweet milk scone costs
twopence, and a bun also costs a
penny, shall I cat a sweet milk scone,
which I like, or a potato scone and a
bun, which I do not care for, but
which will fill a larger chink in my
internal economy?" It is a dreadful
problem, but no more so than to de
cide whether to take a small cup of
tea for twopence, on the chance of
not wanting another; of to take the
large cup for threepence in the begin
ning, and in the end save a penny.
On the whole, the way to enjoy
Cranston's to its utmost is to say
"Hang the expence," and eat regard
less. Then, when, having consumed
so many scones and cakes that the
suggestion of "another bun" is a
snowless deadly insult, you begin a laborious
until i calculation of what you have really
eaten, you receive an unexpected
thrill at discovering that you have
devoured the enormous sum of eight
pence halfpenny.
Glasgow's retail stores surprised
our American minds much less pleas
antly than did the tea-room. Nine
o'clock is supposed to be the opening
time; if it is more convenient to make
it later, why, later it is. Scotch mer
chants must have angelic dispositions
or perhaps it is only a stray Ameri
can who arrives on the dot so that
it really doesn't matter if the sales
woman is IS or 20 minutes late. On
the morning we were leaving for the
Highlands I found to my horror that
I had left my umbrella behind and
must buy another at literally the last
moment. I flew panting up Renficld
Street to a nice little shop I knew, to
discover the shutters just being
taken off. I made a breathless entry
and demanded an umbrella of the
shop boy, the only person in sight.
He looked at me with a hurt expres
sion. "The shop ain't open yet, mum," he
said.
"ft it nartlv. nnn. at. leant." T. ans
wered, "for you are here ami no m
I, Please show me the umbrella,
for I'm in a greatVirry,"
I don't think that boy knew the
meaning of the word, or else he
thought such unseemly haste should
be discouraged.
"I don't sell umbrellas, mum," he
said, "I only takes off the cover. "
"Who does sell them, then?" I
asked in exasperation. "I suppose
there is some one in the shop who
can."
"N'o'm, there ain't," he replied se
verely. "The young woman as sell
hasn't come yet.
I fancy be did not like the expres
sion drawning in my eye, for he has
tily retreated to the back of the shop,
culling over hi shoulder as a parting
insult, "Come in later, mum."
Later, indeed! It was ten minutes
past nine then, and the train for Oluti
left at 9.J0.
I tried two or three other nearby
shops with the same experience, and
actually did return "later," humbled
in spirit, to my first, where a deliber
ate woman who had just arrived
deigned to sell me what 1 wanted.
The only place that seemed to open
on time were the fruiterers, where we
saw the most gorgeous grapes, quite
beyond our modest purse, but worth
going to Scotland to look at. Mag-J
nificent great bunches they were, a!
foot long and nearly a foot wide,;
with every grape perfect, arranged '
on stands like card house, covered
with white paper and with a back
ground of their own leaves to bring
out the full beauty of their color
white, green, yellow, and purple of
every shade from the delicate pinkish
purple to deepest blue-black. Our
mouths watered a we looked at
them, but we made haste to reflect
that it would be a sin to cat anything
so beautiful; and feeling like the
philosophical fox of the fable, we
tilled our bags with an inferior vari
ety and sorrowfully turned our step
toward the train which was to bear
us away from this pleasant city.
It is a pleasant city despite the pall
of smoke that hangs over it and turn
its newest buildings to hoary, begri
med monuments of antiquity in a
year's time. And though it shat
tered some of our preconceived no
tions of the superiority of the Old
World to the New notions of the
sort that, in their desire to be humble
and fair minded, many Americans
have allowed to be thrust upon them
by those "supposed to know" we
have only the kindest memories of
Glasgow,
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LUXURIOUSLY FITTED BOAT.
N'KW YORK, Feb. 8.-Qucen of the
South American fleet, the steamship
Velasquez, came up the harbor yes
terday on her first trip from Argen
tine and Brazilian ports. The Vel
asquez a 11,000 ton vessel of the Lam
port and Holt Line is 460 long and
has accomodation for more than 150
first class passengers. Fitted up
with unusual luxuriousness for a
steamship not in the trans-Atlantic
trade, the Velasquez was admiringly
inspected yesterday by the waterfront
experts. In charge of Captain Kelly,
long a commander iu the service she
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Up-to-Dhte Sawmill Machinery.
18th and Franklin Ave.
Prompt attention given to all repair work.
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brought 41 cabin and 14 steerage pas
sengers yesterday.
SHOULD WEAR PASTE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-Los of a
diamond necklace valued at $18,000
was reported to the police last night
by Mrs, F, Dominick of East 57tb
Street, wife of a banker. Its owner
think she must in some way drop
ped by her on the icy pavement as
she was alighting from a carragc in
front of the Theatre and picked up
by aorne one. Search in the vicinity
failed to disclose any trace of it.
opera house it it said the had the
necklace on, laving worn it at dinner
and had not removed it on setting
out for the opera. She also had it,
she is ccrta'n, when she alighted
from the carriage. Entering the
house among other fashionnbly
cloaked women she mechanically put
her hand to her throat In opening
the wrap and missed the diamonds.
coughs KING OF CURES golds
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